BRITISH writer John le Carre has made a pact with his family to tell him if his work begins to lose its edge.
The 81-year-old recently published his 23rd novel, A Delicate Truth, and the public continues to be fascinated by the works of a man regarded as the leading espionage writer of his time.
However, in an interview with The Times Magazine he says of his family: "They are under strict orders to speak up if they think I am not writing well any longer, because at this point I could write the telephone directory and get money for it."
He has begun work on another novel, loosely based on a story by Joseph Conrad, which he wants to translate into espionage terms.
The former MI5 and MI6 operative has kept on top of changes in the espionage world.
"It's a different world, multiethnic and amazing," he says.
"Brown faces, black faces, white faces and absolutely classless by appearance."
He says Britain's obsession with class is "absurd", and that he wishes to abolish the public schools to make the best teaching resources open to all, and to downsize the monarchy, putting it "on a bicycle".
He says with a smile: "I have a right to these feelings, because I have pretended to be a gentleman for so long."
As for relations between Islam and the West, he says: "If we spent a fraction of what we spent on war trying to meet people's misunderstandings about us, we might do a better job."
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